Chapter 169

Section 169.65

(a) The commissioner of public safety is hereby authorized
and required to adopt and enforce standard specifications as to
the amount, color and direction of light to be emitted or
reflected by lighting devices and as to the general construction
and mounting on the vehicle for compliance with the requirements
and limitations of this chapter.

(b) No person shall have for sale, sell, or offer for sale
for use upon or as a part of the equipment of a vehicle, trailer
or semitrailer, or use upon any such vehicle, any headlamp,
auxiliary driving lamp, rear lamp, signal lamp, spot lamp,
clearance lamp, marker lamp or reflector, or parts of any of the
foregoing, unless of a type which has been submitted to and
approved by the commissioner of public safety.

(c) No person shall have for sale, sell, or offer for sale
for use upon or as a part of the equipment of a vehicle, trailer
or semitrailer, or bicycle, or use upon any such vehicle, any
lamp or device mentioned in this section, which has been
approved by the commissioner of public safety unless such lamp
or device bears thereon the trademark or name and model
designation all permanently marked under which it is approved so
as to be legible when installed.

(d) No person shall use upon any vehicle, trailer or
semitrailer or bicycle any lamps mentioned in this section
unless such lamps are equipped with bulbs of a type approved by
the commissioner of public safety, having a rated candle power,
and are mounted and adjusted as to focus and aim in accordance
with instructions of the commissioner of public safety.

(e) The commissioner of public safety is hereby authorized
to approve or disapprove lighting devices.

(f) The commissioner of public safety is hereby required to
approve or disapprove any lighting device, of a type on which
approval is specifically required in this chapter, within a
reasonable time after such device has been submitted.

(g) The commissioner of public safety is further authorized
to set up a procedure which shall be followed when any device is
submitted for approval.

(h) The commissioner of public safety is authorized to set
and collect a reasonable fee for the testing and approval of all
types of devices upon which approval is required in this
chapter. Such fee may be sufficient in amount to reimburse the
Department of Public Safety for all costs connected with such
test and approval.

(i) The commissioner of public safety, upon approving any
such lamp or device, shall issue to the applicant a certificate
of approval, together with any instructions determined by the
commissioner of public safety.

(j) The commissioner of public safety shall publish lists
of all lamps and devices by name and type which have been
approved by the commissioner of public safety, together with
instructions as to the permissible candlepower rating of the
bulbs which the commissioner of public safety has determined for
use therein and such other instructions as to adjustment as the
commissioner of public safety may deem necessary. No person
shall sell for use or use on any vehicle any reconverted lamp or
any device redesigned for a use other than for which it was
originally approved unless authorized by the commissioner of
public safety.